especially vulnerable to biological or chemical agents because of their size and their limited capacity to flush toxins out of their bodies and their underdeveloped motor skills and total reliance on their parents or other care givers and certainly the role of the congress in this to make sure that we have laws that really speak specifically to them. while the hope is that we will never need to use these countermeasures to combat an attack on our country, i'm proud that we strengthened these programs for everyone in our country especially children. this legislation is supported by the american public health association, the association of states and territorial health officials, the national association of county and city health officials and the trust for america's health as well as very importantly the american academy of pediatrics. i'm very pleased that we're once again voting to pass the pandemic all hazards preparedness act just as we did a month before the end of the last congress. i strongly urge my colleagues in the senate to do the same. this is a bipartisan effort and it's critical to